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What is ADSL?

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What does ADSL means?
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)

Instant Connection:
One click and the user is online. No more waiting to establish a connection.

Simultaneous Voice and Data Connections Over The Same Line:
ADSL end-users can make voice calls and access real-time stock quotes on the internet simultaneously or send a FAX while browsing the World Wide Web. There's no need for a second phone line.

Key Reasons to Use ADSL for High-Speed Internet Access:
With ADSL, you can still use your telephone or fax machine while surfing the Internet, which provides enormous advantages whether at home or at work. Businesses and homes around the world are already running out of spare lines on existing installed telephone lines, so effectively doubling your capacity in this way is a real benefit.

ADSL provides affordable high-speed remote access to the Internet, corporate networks, and on-line services over ordinary phone lines. ADSL offers speeds of up to:

45 times faster than 28.8 Kbps modems
30 times faster than 56 Kbps modems
10 times faster than 128 Kbps ISDN

ADSL enables use of real-time, interactive multimedia and broadcast-quality video for such new services as collaborative computing, video conferencing, distance learning and video-on-demand. ADSL provides a private, secure channel of communications between you and the service provider.

More Security:
ADSL provides a permanent, dedicated connection. It's dedicated to the user and no one else, compared to cable telephone and cable modems which offer access over a shared cable medium. Your data travels along your own line.

Because it's your own dedicated line, transmission speeds are not affected by other users going on-line. With cable modems, transmission speeds drop significantly as more and more users go on-line at the same time.

ADSL is "always on" and connected - just like your telephone. There is no time wasted dialing up the service several times a day and waiting to be connected - ADSL is on standby, waiting ready for use whenever you are.